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Knowing (2009)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury
Director: Alex Proyas
Rated:
Unrated
U.S. Opening Date: March 20th, 2009
THEY SAY
Academy Award Winner Nicolas Cage (National Treasure:
Book of Secrets, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in Knowing, a
gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who
stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future—and sets out to
prevent them from coming true.
In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new
elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be
stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper
with rows of apparently random numbers instead.
Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines
the capsule’s contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands
of young Caleb Koestler. But it is Caleb's father, professor John Koestler
(Nicolas Cage), who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message
predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of
every major disaster of the past 50 years. As John further unravels the
document's chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three
additional events—the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale
and seems to somehow involve Ted and his son. When Ted's attempts to alert
the authorities fall on deaf ears, he takes it upon himself to try to
prevent more destruction from taking place.
With the reluctant help of Diana Wayland (Rose Byrne)
and Abby Wayland, the daughter and granddaughter of the now-deceased
author of the prophecies, Ted's increasingly desperate efforts take him on
a heart-pounding race against time until he finds himself facing the
ultimate disaster—and the ultimate sacrifice.
WE SAY
Alex Proyas kicked promisingly off his career years ago
with the stylish first The Crow movie before moving on to the
excellent Dark City. His output since
then has been, um, more prosaic: the disappointing
I, Robot and Garage Days. We like
time travel tales, but hate numerology movies - so we're a bit ambivalent
about Knowing. Plus the trailer looks a bit too much like Jim
Carrey's 23 to be honest . . .
